In this, and other ways, the news can be not just a waste of time, but actually harmful. I have relatives who will tell you that half the scientists believe in evolution but half of them don't, same with global warming, because that's what bullshit fake-objectivity requires journalists to present.

This right here is what drives me up a wall. Why the fuck do I care what some crackpot or some religiot has to say about what scientists are doing?

More than anything else that's wrong with news today, this is the thing that makes me want to throw something through a window. Preferably, the reporter.

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--------------Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Jesus in Matthew 10:34

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27